Mood Boards

For my first set of mood boards, I decided to use my sketchbook and collage 3-4 pages by filling them with secondary research that creates a very clear image of my interests and how they have been included in my work; for example I have featured Colleen Atwood's costume designs and sketches below because I have chosen her as one of my 3 artists to feature on my Artist Research sheets.

I also chose some stills from Studio Ghibli films, because I felt that they were very relevant to my style of work, colour schemes, use of nature, Japanese features etc as well as also being mentioned in my personal statement as a main inspiration for the vast majority of my art work throughout the years.

 I also chose to use my musical inspirations because the music that I listen to heavily influences my work, it changes the style that I draw in, the speed, the emotion, the harshness, the messiness, the colour scheme, it very often decides on what the piece will be for me, in the moment. I find it a very useful tool to have, as I often find it difficult to express emotions or messages through my pieces, in a quiet room or even in a room filled with people or distractions, very often all I need or find important for my work to express what I want is music, not everything needs to be visual to be necessary.

I then decided to create a more creative mood board including annotation and hand drawn and original pieces to represent my love of Fukari's art style and floral tattoo designs. I wanted to showcase different textures too, so I collaged painted paper for one section then used a mix of all the coloured paint I had used on the sheet already to layer on thickly to use as a background for the rest of the sheet.